Navigating Integration with a Destination in Mind

How do you integrate technology in a high schoolw ith more than 200 teachers and 2,000 students? Strategies for develpoing a campus wide course of action.

• http://tcea2010.pbworks.com - handouts
• Plant many sees - we are farmers
  • Team teach with teachers
  • work with teams and PLC's
  • one on One individualized training
  • Lot's of advice and hand holding
  • Non-threatening envrionment
  • Take every min. as a chance to promote use
• Inspire, Prepare, Coach -
• Blooms taxonomy digitally - show the visaul reference http://www.techlearning.com/article/8670
  • have to define what technology literacy is in the building
  • Media literacty
• Technology facilitators to build a team for support
• Need administrative support
• Develop student support - let them train the teachers
• Technology leader to faciliatate the process
• Developing facilitators
  • 1 per core and 1 per elective
  • give them extra period off
  • help to support teachers during that period
  • work with genyes students
    • learn how to teach teachers http://genyes.com
  • cross-curr integration
• "The box is not the solution"

• tech in twenty - session in 20 minutes

21st Century Writing

• WIKI
  • Use a wiki as a center for students to create a roulet type story, Each kid log into the wiki as themselves and add or edit the same wiki
  • Another teacher is doing a compare and contrast
  • Could set up a station which has the bookmark of the wiki already created - students log in as themselves and edit or add to the story on the wiki
  • Could have a page for each group or each stories
  • can use for math - put math sentences there and write a story problem for the sentence
  • IDEA...put a list of student names above each computer in the classroom
  • wikispaces, google or pbworks for wikis
    • They use First Class because they have a blogg and wiki and email
• BLOGGING
  • Teacher creates the strin
  • kids comment with writting their sentences or answering the teachers question
    • Who do you love (1st or kinder)?
    • Kids respond with at least 5 sentences
    • Could pull up their answers and discuss grammar etc with the whole class
  • unscramble the following words
  • Pump up our adjectives give examples of synonyms or adjectives
  • recording directions for a sigt word list - posted on line and can be accesed anywhere
• Elm Creek Elementary - wiki
• kids use audacity to record book reviews etc...
• kids read their work and therefore catch more errors
  • my podcast
  • podbean
  • podooch
  • switchpod
• all free podcast storage place
• EMAIL
  • writers club
    • send stuff back in forth with errors in it for the other student to correct
  • Send morning messages
  • roulette writing continue to forward the message and continue the story
  • Spell this
    • make corrections to the spelling word list

TCEA update

• House bill 3
  • sboe may not designate a specific course or specificnumber of credits in the....
  • approved changes to chapter 74
    • health no longer required
    • no longer required to complete one credit in tech apps
    • must complete the 1/2 credit is speech - which is in the foundation curr
      • professional communications course that can also satisfy this credit
    • required to complete only one credit in PE and are no longer required to comlee the foundation of personal fitness course as part of that credit
    • students athlete can earn up to 4 credit in to be the required PE if they are in athletics
  • Mininum plan
    • must be at least 16yrs
    • 2 credits in the foundation curric
    • failed to be promoted to the 10th grade
  • CTE courses
    • 3 new courses to satisfy the math credit
    • 6 for the science credit
    • IPC phase out is removed
  • There are 12 courses students must take the end of course exames to graduate
  • fine arts minimum plan requires at least 1 fine arts
    • floral CTE can qualify
  • Fine arts is now required in the jr high area
  • www.tea.state.tx.us/graduation.aspx

• High school teachers - have the content knowledge needed and support to make sucessful on the exams
• TEKS PD
  • math academies 5-8
  • diagnostic assessment
  • algebra 1 readiness grant
    • competitive
    • 23.5 mil
  • texas center for student sucess to provide assistance
  • content academies for eoc's
  • Science TEKS k-12, elps, ccrs (college and carrer readiness standards)
  • science academies grades 5-8
  • contnent support for bio, chem, phy EOC exam classes
  • Scocial studies TEKS reading in 2011 (may) same path followed for professional development
  • US hisotry, world history and world geo EOC exams
  • online professional dev learning communities
  • ELPS
    • imbeded in content
    • also available for bilingual and ESL teahers
  • RTI also
  • spec ed, gt - all teachers provided at least one oppertunity
  • all will have online PLC's in addition to face to face sessions
• CTE 2010 - newly adopted
• Technology Application Tech 2011
• LOTE, Fine Arts Health PE will follow that

• Textbooks
  • Windows on Science - first time there was not a paper textbook
  • Electronic Textbook - any electronic means
  • open source textbook- free to student that can be downloaded from the internet
  • publisher - includes an online service or a developer or districutor of an electronic textbook
  • fund may be used to purchase equipment to support electronic textbooks or instructional material included on the list adopted
  • hb4294

• allow for eportfolios
• extensive interactions amond teachers and studednts
• Phase 1
  • PLC's set up
  • Professional dev
  • access digital content
  • planning for eportfolio pilots
  • planning for eportfolio assessment
  • Engageing shareholders in the platform
    • authors of pd content
      • ESC's
      • Insitutes of higher ed
      • Educators
    • teachers and admins
      • online pd participants
      • professional elarning community participants
  • Shartholder participation
    • shareholders will reciever
      • invitation to participate in couses and discussion groups
      • access to resources inlcuding
        • new york times knowledge and network reposititoyr back to 1851
          • multimedia as well
      • frequent communication with moderators and or other group member
      • feedback and ideas from other group memebers
  • Professional Learning Communities
    • all educators will have the oppertunity to build their own area
    • a multimedia approch
    • collaboration and shairng
    • slelecton of couses
    • digital env.
  • Pre professionl development
    • exploration of material prior to attending the academies
• Phase 2
• Epsilen
• project share is believed to remove the walls
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  • next generation of eworking and eprofiling
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